Tabletop roleplaying thoughts by a London geek

RPGaDay is an annual celebration of tabletop roleplaying. This is the first year I’ve tried to do it.

Which RPG do you enjoy using as is?

This answer feels a bit like a cheat, as if I’m not obeying the spirit of the question, when I say my favourite RPG for using as-is is Microscope. It’s just so flexible that the base game barely feels restrictive. Don’t get me wrong, I like tweaking the rules a bit too (see the way I used it to run a Star Wars game). I also like the expansion rules like Microscope Union, which my friends and I recently used to run a game based on dynastic fighting games like Tekken. But the base game rules-as-written has not been rendered obsolete by these other possibilities, and is still as powerful as when it first came out.